Quotes About Nonsense

I could be proud to have survived what some have called the asshole of creation, proud that it held me and couldn't keep me. But it is dangerous nonsense to believe that anyone contributed much to her own survival.

To be peaceful and joyful is not the end of life; it is the beginning of life. If you are not even peaceful, if you are caught up in your mental nonsense, you have not started living yet. Being peaceful or joyful is the most basic requirement.

Mary: Some call this Eve's curse, but I think that is stupid because the real curse of Eve was having to put up with the nonsense of Adam.

Some called it Eve's curse but she thought that was stupid, and the real curse of Eve was having to put up with the nonsense of Adam, who as soon as there was any trouble, blamed it all on her.

the real curse of Eve was having to put up with the nonsense of Adam, who as soon as there was any trouble, blamed it all on her.

Then she lent me her red flannel petticoat until I should get one of my own, and showed me how to fold and pin the cloths, and said hat some called it Eve's curse but she thought that was stupid, and the real curse of Eve was having to put up with the nonsense of Adam, who as soon as there was any trouble, blamed it all on her.

Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

Therefore, have done with this nonsense: you have no ground for hope: dismiss, at once, these hurtful thoughts and foolish wishes from your mind, and turn to your own duty, and the dull blank life that lies before you. You might have known such happiness was not for you.

if I can gain the public ear at all, I would rather whisper a few wholesome truths therein than much soft nonsense

But the time of mourning is always the perfect time for nonsense.

You know what it takes to teach philosophy here? You have to lie. You have to fling meaningless words as fast as you can at young people, and brood when you can't answer, and make up nonsense and ascribe it to the old Stoics.

Nick rubbed his hand across his face as he tried to make sense of her prattle. But that was the thing about Simi. She seldom made sense.

Like a wombat in a cornfield." Jo "Beg pardon?" Cadegan "You're not the only one who can throw together random words that make no sense and use them in a sentence like they do." Jo

They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put on the troubled seas of thought.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

blithering idiot, gone round the bend:

Who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense - from "Progress and it's Sustainability

stupid laws, that's why.

He was in there-all his ghosts and legends, all the twisted Gothic nonsense out of which he'd built a realm in the long dreaming time when the broken world orbited the shipwreck stars.

No matter what kind of nonsense is going on around you, the first moment of stepping out of a vehicle into space is always awe-inspiring, the more so here in the Core than elsewhere.

To fall for the notion of a 'double truth' and argue there was one set of truths for reason and another for faith and never the two shall meet made nonsense of the idea of truth itself.